The breast service at Easter Medical Center (EMC).

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Course Project Introduction
The “Organization Design for the Breast Service at Easter Medical Center” case offers a summative opportunity to examine a health care organization that is struggling with true-life leadership challenges some of which you might encounter at one time or another in your professional career as a health care leader or as a member of a health care team. Easter Medical Center, the Department of Surgery, and the breast service are facing multiple challenges in areas we have collectively studied throughout this course. The case offers your consulting group the chance to advise a hospital board by systematically integrating the leadership and human resources concepts, principles, and practices you have learned throughout the course.
Course Project Objectives
• Describe the situation for the breast service at Easter Medical Center (EMC).
• Identify main problems and issues with proposed causes for breast service at EMC.
• Analyze problems with the organizational design, managerial controls, decision making, professional integration, adaptation, and accountability for the breast service at EMC.
• Propose recommendations and evidence-based management practices in response to the problems identified.
Reading
del Monaco, C. & Volcker, J.P. (2004). Organization design for the breast service at Easter Medical Center. In A. R. Kovner and D. Neuhauser (Eds.), Health services management: Readings, cases, and commentary (8th ed., pp. 248-252). Chicago: Health Administration Press.
Project Instructions
Point Value: 230 Points
This is a group project that you will complete with your Easter Groups (Easter Group X). You will be placed in groups of three or four. The project spans Weeks Four through Six.
Your group has been engaged as a consulting group by the Easter Medical Center (EMC) to advise the board about how to ensure the breast service supports the EMC vision. As we have progressed through the course, you have studied various topics that will inform your analysis of the breast service and your recommendations to the board. These topics include:
• Organizational design.
• Managerial controls.
• Evidence-based management/decision- making.
• Professional integration/health care professionals.
• Adaptability.
• Accountability.
For this group assignment, the final deliverable will be a consulting report expressing your recommendations with supporting rationale appropriate to the EMC lay hospital board. It must be well organized and concise, but provide sufficient rationale for recommended actions. The focus of the report should be on leadership and human resources issues.
Each recommendation must be supported by rationale for its need. In addition, the anticipated impact and potential unanticipated impacts for each recommendation should be outlined. Finally, for each recommendation, one outside professional or peer-reviewed source must be included to support the group’s rationale.
The consulting report must contain appropriate citations. Easter Medical Center is located in a university town so many board members are academics and always ask for documentation, frequently doing extra reading on their own. You will undoubtedly need to consult other sources beyond the textbook and readings provided in this course. Please cite the sources you consult, including your textbook, so that we know what resources you have discovered and consulted. Be sure to use APA style.
Your consulting report should demonstrate your familiarity and understanding of the various leadership and human resources concepts studied in this course.
Components of the final consulting report will include:
• Cover Page
• Abstract Page
• Body of the Consulting Report
o Brief description of the situation (remember the audience!)
o Description of five main problems/issues with proposed causes
o Analysis of each problem or issue with recommendations and supporting rationale
 Your analysis and recommendations should attend to at least course content topics listed below. The topics can be covered in any order, but make sure you use the following subheadings so that each clearly stands out in your report:
 Organizational design
 Managerial controls
 Evidence-based management/decision-making
 Professional integration/health care professionals
 Adaptability
 Accountability
• Reference Page
This Week
• Read the case, “Organizational Design for Breast Service at Easter Medical Center.”
• Review the Easter Breast Service course project.

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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